A year after captivating critics and audiences at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival (where it won Best Cinematography), writer-director Hannah Peterson’s poignant, yet warm feature debut The Graduates will finally open in theaters on November 1 beginning at NYC’s Metrograph. […]

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After being mentored by modern-day indie icons Chloe Zhao and Sean Baker, first-time filmmaker Hannah Peterson is ready to make her mark with her emotional and compassionate drama, The Graduates, which shows life in the aftermath of a terrible tragedy. […]

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Founded in 2002 in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks on downtown Manhattan, the Tribeca Film Festival spent its first few two decades running at the end of April. In 2021, the festival moved to June as a response […]

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The Tribeca Film Festival just announced its lineup of narrative, documentary, & animated features/shorts for the 2022 edition. This year’s festival will run from June 8-19, and will open with the Jennifer Lopez Netflix documentary, Halftime. About 110 feature films […]

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I recently watched 7 Prisoners (which I also reviewed), slated for a November 11 release on Netflix, at the 2021 Middleburg Film Festival, where I also had a chance to interview its director, Alexandre Moratto (Socrates). Raised both in the […]

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I met with writer/director Aaron Katz (Cold Weather) and two of his actors, John Cho (Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle) and Lola Kirke (Gone Girl), on Monday, March 13, 2017, at SXSW – the day after the movie’s premiere […]

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Aaron Katz's Gemini offers an enigmatic riddle of a mystery wrapped in the glossy trappings of Tinseltown, dense in layers like a Russian nesting doll.

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